<petition><petition_analysis_number>20186221</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20186221</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Mobile</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>5</file_day><file_month>7</file_month><file_year>1862</file_year><filing_court>Chancery</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama</repository><abstract>Referring to her June divorce petition, Elizabeth Ribet asks for financial support during the litigation; "she is poor, destitute of means, and wholly unable to support herself."  Moreover, her husband has filed a divorce counter-suit, charging her with adultery.  A related petition reveals that Elizabeth, the owner of two slaves, was a dressmaker; her husband was a merchant tailor.</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Alimony</subject><subject>Domestic violence</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>